Using LanguageⅠppt配套的教案及板书设计

Unit 3 Cultural Relics Period two reading 胡 悰

1. Ability goals

Enable students to learn about the history of the Amber Room.

2. Learning ability goals

By finishing the timeline and the information, help students grasp the basic structure

and main idea of the passage.

3. Teaching important and difficult points Make the students understand how to find the clues of the passage, and how to grasp the details.

4. Teaching methods

Prediction, scanning and discussion.

5. Teaching aids ：PPT、Blackboard 6. Teaching procedures & ways：

Step one Warming up i.

Make a brief introduction of the Amber Room ii.

Show some pictures for the students to know what an Amber Room is.

Step two Reading Task 1: Skim the passage and make a short summary of the passage. i.

Find out the important elements of the passage. (persons, time and places) ii.

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List the main idea of each paragraph. Make a short summary according to the information. Task 2: Read the passage carefully and the do some exercises i.

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True or false questions. Multiple-choice. Blank filling iv.

Join the correct parts together. Step three discussion Task: Is it worth rebuilding lost cultural relics such as Yuan Ming Yuan? Give your reasons.

(The students will be divided into 3 groups and discuss the question.) Step four Homework Exercise 1&2 on page 3.

IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which was selected had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, which took the country' s best artists about ten years to make. In fact, the room was not made to be a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick I. However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar' s winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served as a small reception hall for important visitors. Later, Catherine Ⅱhad the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and

its mirrors and pictures shone like gold. Sadly, although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world,it is now missing. In September 1941 , the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. This was a time when the two countries were at war. Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that,what happened to the Amber Room remain a mystery. Recently, the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old one. In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their city.